Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities Humanities E-Bookis an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections) In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online) Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books Sabin AmericanaContains works about the Americas published throughout the world from the 1500s-1920s. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.
Nineteenth Century U S Newspapers Digital Archive (1800-1899) With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. America: History and Lifeis a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. It covers archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals. HarpWeek is the electronic version of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Historical New York Timescontains historic issues from the New York Times. Includes issues dating from 1851. JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Kent State Shootings Oral Histories collection of oral histories relating to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Includes eyewitness accounts of the event and its aftermath from students, faculty, residents and guardsman. National Underground Railroad Digital Images Collection of documents relating to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady, letters and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and other presidents, and other historic letters, documents, and pictures. Oxford African-American Studies Center an authoritative and comprehensive source on the African American experience and African and Diaspora studies. Includes scholarly articles, biographical and subject entries, primary resources, multimedia, images, maps, charts, timelines, tables, and teaching materials. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000Full-text resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. beginning in 1600, this collection includes document projects and archives with more than thousands of documents.
American Memory Project provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning." from web site American National Biography Online is the premier biographical work on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure. American Presidency Project contains more than 85,000 documents related to the Presidents of the United States, including The Messages and Papers of the President, The Public Papers of the President, The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, party platforms, remarks, debates, and executive orders. Search by date, president, or topic. Core Documents of the United States this site provides American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society, a core group of current and historical "This collection provides American citizens with direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society. These titles contain information about the democratic process that are critical to informed citizens Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. HSUS provides data on history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade. Chronology of US Historical Documents by University of Oklahoma
Books and media in the area of Biology can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings.In addition, you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials or materials located at Wayne College Library. View Tipsheet.
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D818- D838 (World War I and World War II)
E (United States History)
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E175- 175 (American Presidents)
E184 (Immigration, History)
E186-199 (Colonial History)
E201-298 (American Revolution)
E456-601 (American Civil War)
E660 (Gilded Age)
E740- 884 (20th Century, United States)
E741 (Cold War)
E895-904 ( 21th Century, United States)
F1 -F975 (United States, Local History)
History - United States
Table of Contents
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
Books in the library's collection:
Ref E 168 .S55 1996 Victorian America, 1876 to 1913Ref E169.02 .M3547 1997 Daily life in the United States, 1960-1990 : decades of discord
Ref E 169 .K139 Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain (online and Print)
Ref E 169.12 .A419 2011 American Decades 2000-2009
Ref E 169.12 .A178 2013 2000s in America
Ref E 169.1 .G7553 2009 Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life in America
Ref E169.12 .E515 2012 Encyclopedia of the sixties : a decade of culture and counterculture (online and Print)
Ref E169.12 .F498 2005 The fifties in America
Ref E 169.12 .S447 The seventies in America
E181 .M6986 2012 For the common defense : a military history of the United States from 1607 to 2012
Ref E 188 .P86 1999 Colonial America to 1763
Ref E 208 .E64 2006 Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War : a political, social, and military history
Ref 209 .V65 2003 Daily life during the American Revolution
Ref E301 .E53 2006 Encyclopedia of the new American nation : the emergence of the United States, 1754-1829
Ref E468 .E53 2000 Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history (online and Print)
Ref E 741 .G75 Cold War America, 1946 to 1990
Ref E 839.5 .H57 Historic Documents
Ref HA 202 .D378 2007 Datapedia of the United States : American history in numbers
Ref HN 57 .O94 2012 Oxford encyclopedia of American social history
Online book databases or collections of E-books:
Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas.Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic references cover a wide variety of topics and subjects — ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities
Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies.(View website for tips on searching in Humanities E-Book Collections)
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life.
Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online)
Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books
Sabin Americana Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from the 1500s-1920s. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.
Online Materials:
Suggested E- Book titles:
100 most important American financial crises : an encyclopedia of the lowest points in American economic historyAmerica in the world: a history in documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
American economy : a historical encyclopedia
American revolutionary war
Civil rights movement
Clothing through American History Series
Cold War : the essential reference guide
Culture and politics in the Great Depression
Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain
First World War
Founding visions : the ideas, individuals, and intersections that created America
Great Depression and the New Deal
Guides to Historical Events in American History
Encyclopedia of American Indian history
Encyclopedia of strikes in American history
Encyclopedia of the Korean War : a political, social, and military history
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history
Industrial Revolution: key themes and documents
Oxford companion to United States history
Social history of the United States The 1900s
Storm of witchcraft : the Salem trials and the American experience
Who, What and where of America
Suggested On-Line Documentaries
Constitution and foundations of governmentSafe for Democracy?
September 11
War That Made America
War That Made America. Part 2 : Unlikely Allies
War That Made America. Part 3 : Turning the Tide
War to End Slavery
Recommended Databases:
Academic Search Complete:The world's most comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database. View TipsheetView a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCO Host Databases
View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCO host databases
Nineteenth Century U S Newspapers Digital Archive (1800-1899) With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index : A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. It covers archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Electronic Journal Center : An online periodical archive offering full text of over 6000 research journals.
HarpWeek is the electronic version of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
Historical New York Times contains historic issues from the New York Times. Includes issues dating from 1851.
JSTOR : An online periodical archive with the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
Kent State Shootings Oral Histories collection of oral histories relating to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Includes eyewitness accounts of the event and its aftermath from students, faculty, residents and guardsman.
National Underground Railroad Digital Images Collection of documents relating to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady, letters and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and other presidents, and other historic letters, documents, and pictures.
Oxford African-American Studies Center an authoritative and comprehensive source on the African American experience and African and Diaspora studies. Includes scholarly articles, biographical and subject entries, primary resources, multimedia, images, maps, charts, timelines, tables, and teaching materials.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Full-text resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. beginning in 1600, this collection includes document projects and archives with more than thousands of documents.
Recommended Periodicals
E-Journals:
American HistoryAmerican Studies
American's Civil War
Early American Studies
Recommended Websites:
American Memory Project provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning." from web siteAmerican National Biography Online is the premier biographical work on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure.
American Presidency Project contains more than 85,000 documents related to the Presidents of the United States, including The Messages and Papers of the President, The Public Papers of the President, The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, party platforms, remarks, debates, and executive orders. Search by date, president, or topic.
Core Documents of the United States this site provides American citizens direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society, a core group of current and historical "This collection provides American citizens with direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our democratic society. These titles contain information about the democratic process that are critical to informed citizens
Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. HSUS provides data on history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade.
Chronology of US Historical Documents by University of Oklahoma
Professional Organizations:
American Historical AssociationHistorical Society
National Coalition for History
Organization of American Historians
World History Association
Brush Up on the Basics
Need an overview on this topic? Check out these basic resources:Audiovisual:
American Experience
Twentieth Century Turning Points in U.S History
D 521 .F57 2005 DVD 4 volume set The First World War : the complete series
D 521 .K555 2006 DVD Killing fields: The first world war
D 522.22 .G74 DVD The Great War
D 767.99 .I9 2001 DVD Heroes of Iwo Jima
E 302.5 .F68 2000 DVD Founding Fathers
E 302.6 H2 A44 DVD Alexander Hamilton
E 332 .T46 DVD Thomas Jefferson
E 806 .N55 2009 DVD 1930's
D 811 .A2 T68 2006 1939, Total War
E 185.61 .E94 2010 DVD 3 volume set Eyes on the Prize: American's civil rights years
E 840.8 . C6 A44 2013 American Experience films presents: Clinton
E 841 .C8435 2007 DVD Thirteen days in October
HQ 76.8.U6 A447 2011 DVD American experience: Stonewall uprising
Books:
E178.6 .H46 2009 Aspects of American history (print and on-line)E 171.1 .B782 2013 American history: a very short introduction
E 178.1 .B827 2010 The unfinished nation : a concise history of the American people
E 178.1 .H5 2006 America : a concise history
E 178.1 .J35 2012 A history of the United States
E 178.1 Z56 2003 A people's history of the United States, 1492-present
E 185 .H534 2014 African Americans : a concise history
E 441 .W723 2014 American slavery a very short introduction
E 484 .C58 2014 Civil War (1860-1965) :defining documents in American History
E 813.7 .K38 2013 A concise history of U.S. foreign policy
Finding Books & Media
Books and media in the area of Biology can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings.In addition, you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials or materials located at Wayne College Library. View Tipsheet.If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog
View Tipsheet: OhioLink Central Catalog
Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
D818- D838 (World War I and World War II)E (United States History)
E70-80 (Indians of North America)
E175- 175 (American Presidents)
E184 (Immigration, History)
E186-199 (Colonial History)
E201-298 (American Revolution)
E456-601 (American Civil War)
E660 (Gilded Age)
E740- 884 (20th Century, United States)
E741 (Cold War)
E895-904 ( 21th Century, United States)
F1 -F975 (United States, Local History)
Document Your Sources
The Smucker Learning Center's documents and informationStyle Guides in the Library's collection:
Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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